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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKING GROUP: PUBLIC NAMING OF PLANETS AND PLANETARY SATELLITES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2016

Thierry Montmerle ,
Piero Benvenuti ,
Sze-leung Cheung ,
Lars Lindberg Christensen ,
Alain Lecavelier des Etangs ,
Xiaowei Liu ,
Donald Lubowich ,
Eric Mamajek ,
Rita Schulz  and
Giovanni Valsecchi
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While one of the IAU's missions is to “serve as the internationally recognized authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and surface features on them” (†), the participation of the public in the naming of celestial objects has been a little-known, but decade-long tradition of the IAU.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Issue T29A: Transactions IAU , August 2015 , pp. 539 - 548
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016